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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Off-white stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed. Formed as a concave wavy-edged leaf with a small curved branch handle at one end, standing on an oval footring
History note: Purchased from a dealer at Ringwood on 30 April 1921 for 7s. 6d.; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 2.2 cm
Length: 10.5 cm
Width: 7 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Third quarter of 18th century
George II
Circa
1750
-
1760
Surface composed of salt-glaze
Press-moulding
: White stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.551-1928
Primary reference Number: 75495
Old object number: 3729
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022) "Tray" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75495 Accessed: 2022-11-26 20:20:56
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75495
|title=Tray
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-11-26 20:20:56|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-75495
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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Accession Number: GR.35.1901
Accession Number: C.36.2-1924
Accession Number: M/P.1-1922
Accession Number: C.240-1928
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